The Instruction of Dua-Khety

明天上第二段

今天上第二段
The beginning of
the teaching which the man of Tjel named Dua-Khety made for his son named Pepy,
while he sailed southwards to the Residence to place him in the school of
writings among the children of the magistrates, the most eminent men of the
Residence.

俄

今天上第三段
So he spoke to
him: Since I have seen those who have been beaten, it is to writings that you
must set your mind. Observe the man who has been carried off to a work force.
Behold, there is nothing that surpasses writings! They are a boat upon the
water. Read then at the end of the Book of Kemyet this statement in it saying:

今天上第4段
As for a scribe in any office in the Residence, he will not suffer want in it. When he fulfills the bidding of another, he does not come forth satisfied. I do not see an office to be compared with it, to which this maxim could relate. I shall make you love books more than your mother, and I shall place their excellence before you. It is greater than any office. There is nothing like it on earth. When he began to become sturdy but was still a child, he was greeted (respectfully). When he was sent to carry out a task, before he returned he was dressed in adult garments.


今天上第5段
I do not see a stoneworker on an important errand or a goldsmith in a place to which he has been sent, but I have seen a coppersmith at his work at the door of his furnace. His fingers were like the claws of the crocodile, and he stank more than fish excrement.

欺负伦家看不懂英文。

其实偶也看不懂。偶就是赚赚经验发的。。

早说嘛 我还自卑了一下。

。。。

今天上第6段：
Every carpenter who bears the adze is wearier than a fieldhand. His field is his wood, his hoe is the axe. There is no end to his work, and he must labor excessively in his activity. At nighttime he still must light his lamp.

今天上第7段：
The jeweler pierces stone in stringing beads in all kinds of hard stone. When he has completed the inlaying of the eye-amulets, his strength vanishes and he is tired out. He sits until the arrival of the sun, his knees and his back bent at (the place called) Aku-Re.

今天上第8段
The barber shaves until the end of the evening. But he must be up early, crying out, his bowl upon his arm. He takes himself from street to street to seek out someone to shave. He wears out his arms to fill his belly, like bees who eat (only) according to their work.